Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-20 | Page 16 | Dempsey will Fight Brennan

DEMPSEY HI Next Battle for Champ Is f Likely to Be Staged ; at Tulsa. Special to The Tribune. -CHICAGO, July 19. Heavyweight C'hampion Jack Dempsey 'g next opponent oppo-nent will be Bill Brennan, the Chicago heavyweight, according to Leo P. Flvnn, tho ancient mariner of tho fight bi.-inagcrs, who passed through Chicago .'n'l.v today on his way to Now York. ' Leo was in a highly excited stato of mind and seemed reluctant to dispose of any information. Perhaps lie was waiting wait-ing until lie arrives in New York, as li6 is one of those fellows who believes a. story isn't news until it appears in a ttotham paper. This much was learned from him. John (The Rarberl Kicslcr, now promoter pro-moter at Tulsa, Olda., has the match He, has offered a purse of $50,000. P.v accepting the match Dempsey, in addition addi-tion to receiving the linn's share of the purse, will obtain from Riesler u quit claim to his services, thus wiping out for all time the controversy between be-tween Riesler and the champion 'about, that old contract that caused some court trouble. Down at Tulsa it is possible pos-sible to stage a twenty-round fight. Decisions De-cisions are permitted! Dempsey holds one knockout victory over Brennan, licnee the fight will" not crcato very widespread interest. They met a year or so ago in Milwaukee and Brennan was stopped in seven rounds. He suf- itircci a lr.-icturcd ankle in one of the early rounds when lie was floored several sev-eral times. At that Bill put up a better bet-ter scrap than most of Dcmpsev's opponents, op-ponents, including Jess M'illarrL . Reports that this match was made wore printed in The Tribune last week. "It was pointed out then that Riesler closed it when lie visited Toledo and suddenly left after threatening all kinds of trouble for the then challenger. chal-lenger. The lato will be in t he fall. I